Bat Wings and A Gingerbread House?

As I stated during my last post, I during Halloween I made Martha Stewart's Bat Wings. Now, our dear friends always allow me to test my dishes out on them. Lucky for me, she is an excellent cook so there is always something else to eat and in the event I accidently poision us with one of my dishes, he is in the medical profession!

Anyway, back to the bat wings. The recipe calls for bean sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, brown sugar and black food coloring. You marinate the chicken wings from two to 12 hours turning them every 30 minutes. My problem with the dish was that my wings were too big!! I should have purchased a more lean wing. The other problem was that I had never purchased a bean sauce or oyster sauce and at 6:00am, no one in Wal-Mart knew what the hell I was talking about. So, I had to leave Wal-Mart in Mt. Juliet and drive to Publix to find it. When I got to Publix I stared at the shelf for 15 minutes before I found the bean sauce. While I could have called several people to help me, there was no one I dared call at 6:45 am to ask about bean sauce. I found the recipe quite delicious except I could only eat a half a wing. Why, I was exhausted from making cake pops.

So, I bet you wonder how bat wings and a gingerbread house are related. Let me tell you. This evening, I get in the car and my son tells me he has signed us up to participate in a gingerbread house contest. Luckily my husband was driving!!!!!! I see flashes of everyone laughing. The worst part is the kid believes we have a chance to win $100.00!!! Is he insane?? Hell, maybe I should just give him the $100.00. I wanted so bad to say son, let me put $100.00 in your savings account but instead, I said "sure, we can enter the contest." So, the real question is, is there a therapist out there somewhere??? I NEED HELP!!!!!!